Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

I don't often write nonfiction, but this one crawled out of me. It's a horror story about what it really means to fight for love in a queer international relationship, while living in the USA in 2026. And we're the lucky ones. lucykrwrites.com/2026/06/03/f...

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

From the covered porch I can hear the pattern of footsteps as each person approaches. The children running, swift patter, swiftly pursued. The woman with the booted foot, long short, long short. The elderly, shuffling. A life behind each muffled shoefall, all of them, all of us, in one photo of blue

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

New short story up for free on LucyKRwrites.com! The Absence of Fireflies, a WLW short horror about a weird hometown. >Her voice was different there, in that town. I knew that I knew her– I’d known her for years– but that place made a stranger of her. lucykrwrites.com/2026/02/24/f...

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Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g... 🌈📚

Anything you want to know? My decorative snail figurine with crystal orb and I are here to answer! lucykrwrites.com/2026/01/08/f...

Our most recent anthology SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES is now available! Buy your copy from our webstore, request it from your library, order it at your local bookstore, or purchase it from a retailer who sell our books! duckprintspress.com/shop 🌈📚

Every month, we hold a litcon-style panel on a topic chosen by our Patrons or selected by the panelists themselves. This month, we’re getting together with Sebastian Marie, Puck Malamud, Alex Bauer, Tris Lawrence, and Lucy K. R. about being neurodiverse creators! www.patreon.com/c/duckprints...

My website is all updated and ready to assist & entertain! Swing by to learn about my published works, my upcoming projects & personal appearances, some excellent modeling work if I do say so myself, and a surprising number of cats! lucykrwrites.com

Copperheads, commonly feared by people here in the Southern US, love to eat molting cicadas as a tasty little treat. Don't you find that a little cute? Copperheads just munching up cicadas straight out of the oven. They must be so nice when they're fresh.

[Excerpt from Part 1 of "Land? Wasted.", a queer Southern poem inspired by The Wasteland.] Velos the psychic, fictional character, Told me my fortune though I did not ask And was, unfortunately, right. I do not read Tarot, but she does, and I wrote her.

Caffeine and the Unsleeping is coming to an Anthology near you! Scholarly Pursuits is crowdfunding now--join Ben, Vladimir, and many others in stories about the cozy side of Dark Academia. www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

A new beginning (...again) >30+ lesbian author, she/her >Taekwondo student, musician, art lover, Wife Guy, restaurant worker, reader >Published in And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, She Wears the Midnight Crown, Aim for the Heart, & A Truth Universally Acknowledged >Find my work with @duckprintspress.com